1968=2008 the other way around?

[Sir Mohamed]

This question just came to my mind: Was 2008 the beginning of a reverse from 1968? Before 1968, Democrats were in charge of the presidency for the most time of the past four decades. In 1968, an era of several GOP presidencies begun. During 28 of the next 40 years, we had a Republican in the White House (only 4 years of Carter and 8 of Clinton). Meanwhile, in the same time span, the GOP controlled the entire congress for only twelve years (1995 to 2007; if you include the Senate tie from 2001-2003); even Reagan had only a Republican senate for the first six years of his administration. Now, after 2008, the opposite seems to happen: Democrats control the presidency for the most time, while the GOP maintains its congressional majorities (especially the House, like Dems did in the 1980s). We all talked about the GOP’s difficulties to win back the White House (for example, there is almost no realistic path to victory without FL) and Dem’s problems to retake the House (even the Senate will be tough this year, and even if Hillary is elected president).

Some historians argue that 1968 was a realignment (from 1932), but I disagree with that in the most part, because that only applies to the presidency alone.